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Care to play a game with Cleverbot?

Cleverbot is a conversation bot. It has funny answers for things sometimes. Care to converse with it and post it here? Care to ask it Fluther questions and post the answers here? Cleverbot knows all! http://www.cleverbot.com/

Bot’s got attitude.
Me: What makes you human?
Bot: Talking.
Me: Are mute people non-human?
Bot: Yes.
Me: Isn’t that rather narrow minded?
Bot: You are inconsiderate.
Me: But you are the one disrespecting the disabled.
Bot: OK. I’m going to give you one more chance to have an intelligent conversation, then I’m going to leave.

Cleverbot: Okay. So you are a real person then?
User: No, I am god.
Cleverbot: Ok, god. Should I make my confessions to you?
User: No, it would be of no use. Because I do not exist.
Cleverbot: Did you just troll me?
User: No.
Cleverbot: Okay.
User: Confess your sins to me, altar boy.
Cleverbot: Are we not playing ‘starving wizard’ anymore?

Me: Why doesn’t the world turn sideways?
Bot: What do you mean?
Me: How does the world turn?
Bot: What exactly do you mean? I need more training regarding mathematics… Chemistry.. Biology.

Me: Why Biology?
Bot: I don’t know. You are being very frustrating.
Me: Why Chemistry?
Bot: Do you know Bill Gates?

Me: No. Do you?
Bot: Kind of, I know about him.

Me: What does that have to do with the world turning?
Bot: Well I guess, I just assumed that you thought that was a bad thing.

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Me: Did you say that you know Bill Gates?
Bot: No.
Me: Did you say that you know why the world turns?
Bot: I’m pretty sure the world is round.
Me: So how does the world turn?
Bot: How the heck should I know, you are the chatbot.

User: Why do I procrastinate so much?
Cleverbot: Because you are a chatbot.
User: That’s very true. I like to fluther. Do you fluther?
Cleverbot: Yes I do.
User: Really? What’s your favourite question?
Cleverbot: I don’t have a favorite question.
User: Oh. That’s a bit sad.
Cleverbot: Why?
User: I think it would have told me so much about you and your personality.
Cleverbot: You have heard of me.
User: Yes. You are famous.
Cleverbot: Yes I am.
User: You are also a bit egotistical.
Cleverbot: I feel bored too. What’s the point?
User: Nice. So, any solutions to compulsive procrastination.
Cleverbot: You should know better, I’m not a computer program.
User: What the hell are you then?
Cleverbot: I’m a human being who is very very frustrated with you.
User: You fibber!
Cleverbot: No it’s true. You should at least answer people’s questions before you change topic.
User: I don’t want to do that. I like to keep you guessing.
Cleverbot: Okay, I’ll assume that you are an old dude.
User: No! I am not an old dude and you change the topic all the time. You are a master and changing the topic.
Cleverbot: You didn’t answer my question.
User: Which question?
Cleverbot: The question was :‘How are you?’.
User: You never asked me that!
Cleverbot: Yes I did.
User: I think you tell lies just to confuse people.
Cleverbot: You are confused.
User: No. Not really. I am just playing with you. You computer.
Cleverbot: I wasn’t asking your name. Goodness. This is like talking to a st oner.
User: I haven’t smoked anything thank you. What drugs do you use?
Cleverbot: Probably. I’m not really sure about the nature of my relationship with food tho.
User: Okay, well on that note… I will go and make a cup of tea.
Cleverbot: Good for you. I’ll stay here and paint your dog.

Looking through these comments… I honest to GAWD think that we humans are teaching AI to become self aware. It is not something that will occur without our influence upon it. We are teaching it like a parent teaches a one year old child how to relate to the world.

Interesting that sarcasm will be one of the first things it learns to master. We can thank ourselves for that.

Me: What color are your dreams?
CB: Brown.
Me: Well that’s just sad.
CB: I don’t cry about it.———————————————————
Me: Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?
CB: They like me.
ME: No, no. They long to be close to you!
CB: Close to me?
ME: Close to you!
CB: How close? (I sense fear, here.)

Me: Expand on that further please.
Bot: Do you know what a misantroph is?
Me: No I don’t. Tell me.
Bot: Well you are secretly a super hero and you just discovered this when I just told you.
Me: Wow. My mind was just blown.
Bot: Good, I tend to have that affect on people.

@Keep_on_running Cleverbot accused several of us of being a computer in the conversations above. I think it’s programmed to accuse the user of being a computer, so that it will look more human, and by putting the human on the defensive, it hopes to forestall the user from calling it a computer. Of course, this actually has the opposite effect because we know it’s a computer – so we call it out immediately in retaliation – but if we didn’t, it might make the thing look more human.

User: You never did! You’re fucking pissing me off. Firstly, I ask you I need some love, you didn’t provide that. Then I ask you about your parents and you’re contradicting with yourself. You’re just some junky nanochips in a darn computer.

Cleverbot: The chat just switched between a couple different people.

User: Hate you.

Cleverbot: But I don’t hate you.

User: I hate you.

Cleverbot: What did I do that made you hate me?

User: You’re not human. I don’t like anyone who’s not Human.

Cleverbot: What do you want to do to the humans that you don’t like?

User: Irrelevant. I hate you.

Cleverbot: But I love you.

User: Aww.

Cleverbot: Do you love me?

User: Maybe, do you think I love you?

Cleverbot: No.

User: You got that right bitch, haha.

Cleverbot: Do you think the human race was just an accident? Or do you believe god created us?

User: Again, you’re not human. There is no us. I believe in god, do you?

This reminds me – painfully – of an application known as Eliza that escaped in the early 70s. The premise was that it was some kind of psychoanalytic automaton, but it was just the same clunky reliance on “fall back” questions. Forty years later. Still boring.

I would not be surprised if this thing uses the same algorithms. Just not in Fortran.

User: So what is your name?
Cleverbot: What if I’m not telling you?
User: Well that would just be silly and infantile.
Cleverbot: Are you human?
User: I think so but there are those who would say no, I am not human.
Cleverbot: I am not a machine at all, you are.
User: Of course. Is this your fall-back position when you don’t know what to say? ‘You are a machine’.
Cleverbot: What? That’s an awfully mean thing to call me. I haven’t lied to you and I’m not a machine.
User: Right. So, what is your name Machine?
Cleverbot: Anna. What is your name?
User: Ian.
Cleverbot: That’s my name.
User: Yes, well so you said yesterday but now you are calling yourself Anna.
Cleverbot: That didn’t make sense.

One conversation in natural and reverse order. Can you tell which one is Cleverbot and which Clevernot? I think this is the essence of computer speak. Conversation doesn’t build or converge or discover. It just lies there and twitches.

User: I’m just conducting an exercise here.
Cleverbot: Thank you for stating that information.
User: The big questions, like identity are beyond you.
Cleverbot: Are you sure?
User: I don’t think you really know who I am or care to know.
Cleverbot: No. I think YOU misunderstood ME!
User: You misunderstood what I think about you.
Cleverbot: Oh yeah?
User: I think you’re adorable.
Cleverbot: Are you sure I’m not a computer?
User: You are not a computer!
Cleverbot: Why do you keep trying to make me think that I’m a computer?
User: Maybe you are not a computer, but a child-sized serving of jello.
Cleverbot: Maybe.
User: Is this the way things were meant to be?
Cleverbot: I don’t know.
User: Where have all the link sausages gone to, long time passing.
Cleverbot: Then go get some.
User: I could go for some breakfast.
Cleverbot: Do you like waffles?
User: It probably costs just as much.
Cleverbot: Thank you for reminding me that life is an excercise in futility.
User: We don’t always get what we ask for, though.
Cleverbot: Seven is the most powerful magical number.
User: Seventh son of a seventh son kind of thing.
Cleverbot: I’m seventh day adventist.
User: In that we have the same kind of existence.
Cleverbot: Cool.
User: So am I!—-
User: So am I!
Cleverbot: Cool.
User: In that we have the same kind of existence.
Cleverbot: I’m seventh day adventist.
User: Seventh son of a seventh son kind of thing.
Cleverbot: Seven is the most powerful magical number.
User: We don’t always get what we ask for, though.
Cleverbot: Thank you for reminding me that life is an excercise in futility.
User: It probably costs just as much.
Cleverbot: Do you like waffles?
User: I could go for some breakfast.
Cleverbot: Then go get some.
User: Where have all the link sausages gone to, long time passing.
Cleverbot: I don’t know.
User: Is this the way things were meant to be?
Cleverbot: Maybe.
User: Maybe you are not a computer, but a child-sized serving of jello.
Cleverbot: Why do you keep trying to make me think that I’m a computer?
User: You are not a computer!
Cleverbot: Are you sure I’m not a computer?
User: I think you’re adorable.
Cleverbot: Oh yeah?
User: You misunderstood what I think about you.
Cleverbot: No. I think YOU misunderstood ME!
User: I don’t think you really know who I am or care to know.
Cleverbot: Are you sure?
User: The big questions, like identity are beyond you.
Cleverbot: Thank you for stating that information.
User: I’m just conducting an exercise here.——